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Rhonda Brown and Tom Grotta’s Wilton, Connecticut, home and gallery comprises an 1895 barn (right) mirrored by a newer structure. A glass-doored corridor connects the two barns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For more than 30 years, Rhonda Brown and Tom Grotta have run browngrotta arts, a pioneering dealer of fiber and modern crafts<\/a> and a publisher of catalogues featuring the best and brightest talents in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their home, in Wilton, Connecticut, is well-known to collectors and museum curators. The 10,000-square-foot renovated barn is also their gallery, which houses a revolving collection of world-class textile, mixed-media and dimensional art from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown and Grotta came upon their two-acre property in 1999. They had just exhibited a collection at the Montclair Art Museum, in New Jersey, presenting exciting large works in a manner they never could have achieved in the small farmhouse they occupied at the time. The experience prompted them to find a new home, one that would allow them to properly showcase the scale and haptic nature of the fiber pieces by their artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe looked at 236 houses before we decided to move to this barn,\u201d says Grotta. \u201cWe needed high ceilings because we were limited with what we could show in our previous space. Wilton has a lot of historical homes, so that means a lot of low ceilings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few of the Tobias Scarpa\u2013designed Bastiano sofas<\/a> owned by the couple are positioned around a hearth made from local bluestone.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The original 1895 structure boasted 20-foot-tall ceilings, well-proportioned rooms and great bones. But it also had \u201ca traditional barn shape,\u201d as Brown describes it. So, they brought in architect David Ling, who had helped with their previous 1927 farmhouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a two-year renovation, Ling duplicated the existing barn and added a corridor of glass doors \u2014 which now serves as the entrance hall \u2014 to connect the old and new structures. The resulting H-shape formation provided a seamless flow between the home and gallery spaces, and created unobstructed sight lines throughout the interiors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown and Grotta also hired landscape architect Walter Carell, who uncovered and exposed the beautiful bluestone that was hidden beneath the property\u2019s foundation. This was then used to pave the walkway leading to the entrance. \u201cWe really wanted for the home to look from the outside as if it had always been there. And so, the surprise is when you come inside the doors,\u201d says Grotta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Works from the current browngrotta arts<\/a> exhibition, \u201cVolume 50: Chronicling Fiber Art for Three Decades,\u201d include Agneta Hobin\u2019s Bridge<\/em><\/a>, made of steel and mica interwoven with metal threads, on the left; Laura Ellen Bacon\u2019s woven sculptures on plinths<\/a>, Surface Forms<\/em>; and W\u0142odzimierz Cygan\u2019s Traps<\/em>, made of wool, viscose, linen, sisal and fiber optics, on the wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The light-filled front hall, which runs east-west, is paved with the same bluestone used for the exterior walkway, with the aim, Brown explains, to \u201cbring the outside in.\u201d The space\u2019s minimalist, industrial aesthetic lends itself to large-scale fiber works and textural pieces. \u201cWe like the differing textures of the wood, the brick and the corrugated and galvanized steel as backdrops for our images of the work,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNobody was servicing textiles and fiber, quite frankly,\u201d says Grotta, referring to the gallery\u2019s early days. \u201cWe realized we could do something, because if they’re going to come to Wilton, Connecticut, we had to make it worth their while.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original barn hosts a revolving showcase of artists\u2019 works. Above, in a previous exhibition, a coiled fiber sculpture by Karyl Sisson took center stage in the room alongside a Le Corbusier<\/a> dining table and Harry Bertoia<\/a> metal chairs. The brush sculpture is by Mary Merkel-Hess<\/a>, and the portraits on the far wall are by Marjike Arp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Their passion paid off, as they quickly attracted the attention of such iconic textile artists as Sheila Hicks, Lenore Tawney, Ed Rossbach<\/a>, Ritzi Jacobi<\/a> and Kay Sekimachi. \u201cWe wanted to do something we could be the best at, and it got better and better as we grew, and people wanted to be photographed and be among the other people in our catalogues,\u201d Grotta says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, Grotta and Brown take us through more of the barn’s spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kitchen & Dining Room<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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To open up the interiors, the walls were painted in a bright white throughout. For the new barn, beams were purchased and treated to match the existing ones in the old barn. These were also used for the main staircase, which was finished with treads made from slabs of wood salvaged from a local lumber yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original barn\u2019s dark-wood wall panels were repurposed into floor boards for the new barn\u2019s lower level, and doors found in the old attic were used on the second level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the new barn, there are 33 French doors, so there’s a lot of light and less wall. It\u2019s where we spend most of our time living,\u201d Grotta says. \u201cThe other side of the barn is where I do most of my photography. Even though there are a lot of windows from the original barn, there’s less light, which is better for the art.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spaghetti chairs by Giandomenico Belotti<\/a> surround a slab dining table topped with a willow, wood and raw clay sculpture by St\u00e9phanie Jacques. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Brown and Grotta keep their home intentionally spare because it needs to accommodate all sizes and types of art. Most of the furniture can also be moved around. \u201cIt’s as much a photo studio as it is a space to show art and a place that we live and entertain in, so it’s got to be flexible,\u201d says Grotta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the pedigreed furniture pieces here are Spaghetti chairs by Giandomenico Belotti<\/a> that have traveled with the couple throughout the years and that are now used everywhere in the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Living Room<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Italian design from the 1960s and \u201970s has a special place in the Brown-Grotta home. Many of the pieces were inherited from Grotta\u2019s mother, who acquired them during her years working as an interior designer. These include the five Tobias Scarpa\u2013designed Bastiano sofas<\/a> in the living room, which the couple love for their modular versatility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another noteworthy piece is the custom cocktail table inlaid with ceramic tiles by Claude Vermette<\/a>, one of the first painters they represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Main Bedroom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In the couple\u2019s bedroom, the walnut bed by Edgar and Joyce Anderson belonged to Grotta\u2019s parents, who handed it down upon the completion of their Richard Meier-designed home<\/a>, built to showcase the works they had commissioned over their lifetime from the celebrated furniture makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grotta has amassed his own collection of handcrafted pieces by the Andersons. Scattered throughout the barn, these range from a server and Grotta\u2019s childhood roll-top desk, both repurposed for use in the home\u2019s old kitchen, to their son\u2019s bed and a massive corner sofa. \u201cWe would not build a house that could not hold the corner sofa,\u201d says Grotta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Long
Long Lines<\/em>, 2010, by Annette Bellamy, is in the current show at browngrotta arts, “Volume 50.” <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Over the 20 years since Brown and Grotta made the barn their home and gallery, they have exhibited works by longtime and budding international textile and fiber artists who have gained wide recognition from museums, art institutions and private collectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlights have included the exquisite fabrics of the renowned designer Jack Lenor Larsen<\/a>, who has long been a decorator favorite; the baskets of Mary Merkel-Hess<\/a>, one of the first contemporary basket artists shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York; and the drawloom textiles of the late Ethel Stein<\/a>, who, at the age of 96, was celebrated in a 2015 retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The couple is currently holding their annual “Art in the Barn\u201d exhibition, visitable for free by reservation<\/a> through September 20. Titled “Volume 50: Chronicling Fiber Art for Three Decades,” <\/em>it comprises 120 works by 65 American and international artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smaller works in “Volume 50”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Among the more epically scaled pieces in the show are Annette Bellamy’s Long Lines <\/em>(2010), a surreal 12-foot-high installation of ceramic fishing hooks on twine, and Lia Cook<\/a>\u2019s Su Series<\/em> (2010\u201316), composed of 32 woven portraits, each created using a different technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTextiles were sort of out of favor when we started doing this, but we loved them anyway, and we kept documenting them and making sure they were being shown in different ways,\u201d says Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adds Grotta, \u201cThere’s no other place on the planet where you can see this caliber of textiles from all over the world in one place at one time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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